Pastor Brian Cassell could not have known what the outcome would be when he began Bible studies with Kevin Messina in the spring of 2012. Messina had recently begun attending the church in Port Charlotte, Florida, where Cassell was the senior pastor.

Just hours before launch, the inaugural worship service in Patmos Chapel’s newly purchased building was cancelled. No one could have planned on coronavirus spreading across the globe in a matter of weeks, disrupting organizations, institutions, and churches.

Christopher McCorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd: These are just some of the Black people who have lost their lives to police brutality in 2020 alone.

Long before COVID-19 shut down schools across the nation, the Department of Education in the Southern Union Conference provided digital library and information resources to schools within its eight-state jurisdiction.